Farzana Choudhury

Farzana is a human rights lawyer, specialising in poverty, homelessness and disability rights. Farzana has a passion for access to justice for people experiencing barriers, which she has channelled through various initiatives, including frontline advocacy as a community lawyer, establishing a legal education and advice clinic for women in prison, setting up Canberra Community Law’s Mental Health Justice Clinic, and investigating the application of poverty discrimination law frameworks as a Churchill Fellow.

Farzana was awarded ACT Young Lawyer of the Year in 2019 and ANU Young Alumna of the Year in 2020, in recognition of her professional and community engagement to support people facing barriers. Farzana was awarded Pro Bono/Not-For-Profit/Community Legal Centre Lawyer of the Year at the 2023 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards.

Farzana is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Access to Justice Committee and a former President of the ACT Law Society.